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...artistic talent of Louis Patton, then twelve years old, attracted the attention of a West Hartford, Conn, newspaper. Though frail and shy, Louis seemed ambitious, told the paper that he was willing to try anything-"soda jerking, maybe"-to earn enough money for a trip to Hollywood, where he wanted to work for Walt Disney. Four years later, when he was 16, Louis dropped out of high school. Explained his father, Orall Patton: "Louis couldn't stand the drinking by the high-school boys, especially their breath...
Died. Sir Hugh Cairns, 56, professor of surgery at Oxford University and world-famed brain surgeon (among his patients: General George Patton, Lawrence of Arabia); after long illness; in Oxford...
This was the environment that produced George Patton, a fine, slashing tactician but who thought the struggle between Nazis and anti-Nazis was just like a lot of Democrats and Republicans. Yet a clutch of wiser men rose from this ruck and were ready when World War II demanded them. These were men who, in the between-the-wars years, improved their hours at staff and command schools; while junior officers, they were spotted and ticketed for bigger jobs. The Army school system produced a gifted and acute coalition leader, Ike Eisenhower; it produced Bradley, MacArthur, and other strategists...
...Sprinter Andy Stanfield, who bettered the 200-meter record held by 1948 Olympic Winner Mel Patton by a tenth of a second. Stanfield's time...
...Ball Express (Universal-International) is a tardy tribute to the U.S. Army transportation crews which sped gas, ammunition and food to Patton's Third Army when it outran its supply lines during the August 1944 Allied breakthrough in France. Red Ball Express (railroadese for top priority freight) captures some of the excitement of its subject through wartime combat film pieced out with action scenes shot at Fort Eustis...